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The Love Hack
When a hacker threatens to expose compromising information on her son, the carefully constructed world of small-town mayor Regina Mills starts to crumble. Growing up in the foster care system has taught ex-hacker and ex-felon Emma Swan that she's better off alone. From they start, they challenge one another, soon finding that to follow their hearts, they have to face their fears.
999 pages, ebook
Published March 8, 2018
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April 24, 2018
This is a good story with great development.
Regina is a character who apparently has everything right. She is the mayor of a city that is organized and peaceful, she has a teenage son who is kind and caring, everything perfect, aparently. And then a hacker appears and destroys the semblance of perfection that she had built up around her life.
Now she finds herself confronted with the blackmail and extortions of an unknown person who invaded the privacy of her home and most importantly, obtained intimate images of her son.
Going to the police does not solve much and, as the story unfolds, we learn that she has a dark past that compels her not to seek the FBI or draw attention to herself.
Enter the ex-convict Emma Swan.
Emma from the beginning is the opposite of Regina. She has no secrets, her life is set for everyone to see how badly it is going.
She is a hacker who because of her mistakes and crime ends up not finding any job and it's results in a horrible place.
With the help of a police officer, Regina seeks Emma's help in trying to find out who is to blame for messing up and threatening her family's peace.
In the narrative, the author tells us about the traumas and fears that the two characters feel about certain things of their past. The drama was very well done and moving.
While this is one of my favorite readings I can't give 5 stars because I felt that while Regina is always making concessions to Emma's emotional angst, Emma doesn't seem as committed as Regina.
Not that she has not been with Regina in her moments of anguish, but Regina is always putting Emma's priorities above her own fears and when Regina panics Emma hurts and does not really seek to understand the problems that Regina demonstrates .
Because for me, the way Regina was raised and the fears she has in adult life, it is quite clear that she has suffered abuse from her mother ... An emotional and psychological abuse, but it is still an abuse. And in the story this is not addressed, Emma continues to run in her anguish about abandonment and everyone makes several concessions to be careful with her, but Regina just ... She's treated as if she's running away from her problems.
Anyway ... While this bothered me, I still really enjoyed the story.
A great read for anyone who wants a slow narrative and where romance is not the only focus, everyone has a life beyond that.
Regina is a character who apparently has everything right. She is the mayor of a city that is organized and peaceful, she has a teenage son who is kind and caring, everything perfect, aparently. And then a hacker appears and destroys the semblance of perfection that she had built up around her life.
Now she finds herself confronted with the blackmail and extortions of an unknown person who invaded the privacy of her home and most importantly, obtained intimate images of her son.
Going to the police does not solve much and, as the story unfolds, we learn that she has a dark past that compels her not to seek the FBI or draw attention to herself.
Enter the ex-convict Emma Swan.
Emma from the beginning is the opposite of Regina. She has no secrets, her life is set for everyone to see how badly it is going.
She is a hacker who because of her mistakes and crime ends up not finding any job and it's results in a horrible place.
With the help of a police officer, Regina seeks Emma's help in trying to find out who is to blame for messing up and threatening her family's peace.
In the narrative, the author tells us about the traumas and fears that the two characters feel about certain things of their past. The drama was very well done and moving.
While this is one of my favorite readings I can't give 5 stars because I felt that while Regina is always making concessions to Emma's emotional angst, Emma doesn't seem as committed as Regina.
Not that she has not been with Regina in her moments of anguish, but Regina is always putting Emma's priorities above her own fears and when Regina panics Emma hurts and does not really seek to understand the problems that Regina demonstrates .
Because for me, the way Regina was raised and the fears she has in adult life, it is quite clear that she has suffered abuse from her mother ... An emotional and psychological abuse, but it is still an abuse. And in the story this is not addressed, Emma continues to run in her anguish about abandonment and everyone makes several concessions to be careful with her, but Regina just ... She's treated as if she's running away from her problems.
Anyway ... While this bothered me, I still really enjoyed the story.
A great read for anyone who wants a slow narrative and where romance is not the only focus, everyone has a life beyond that.
March 11, 2019
This is quite a long story...worth it, though. There were a few times when Emma was annoying the ever loving shit out of me, but we all made it through :)
March 10, 2019
DNF at 82%
It’s not a bad story, but I’ve been skimming a lot and I’m not really invested in it.
It’s not a bad story, but I’ve been skimming a lot and I’m not really invested in it.
February 3, 2022
I like how the author writes; she does it beautifully, but to me, it was too much of a slow burn. I read most of the book looking for the 'love' part of it, and it only came in the very end, still, with lots of struggles. I would rather have more of that romance part, yet, it is a good read.
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